Charles Du Bos

Japanese: デュ･ボス（英語表記）Charles Du Bos

1882‐1939
French critic. Born into an upper-class family, he was well educated and had a devout soul. For him, criticism was nothing more than an activity that began with an encounter between a work and himself on the horizon of the soul, and deepened the problems discovered there through empathy and introspection; it had almost no professional meaning. The subjects of his collection of essays, Approximations (7 volumes, 1922-37), were international in scope, including Goethe and Peter, and also extended to music and art. He also wrote personal studies on Gide and Constant, but his Diary (9 volumes, 1946-61), in which he kept a record of his daily life of constantly coming into contact with literature and art, and through them, pursuing the aesthetic and spiritual. It can be said that his greatest critical work is his Diary (1946-61).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1882‐1939
フランスの批評家。上流階級の出身で該博な教養と敬虔な魂の持主であった彼にとって，批評とは，魂の地平における作品と自己との出会いを出発点として，そこに発見された問題を共感と内省とにより深化させる営みにほかならず，職業的な意味はほとんどなかった。評論集《近似》全7巻(1922‐37)に論じられた対象はゲーテ，ペーターなどを含む国際的なひろがりをもち，音楽や美術にも及ぶ。ジッドやコンスタンを論じた個人研究もあるが，たえず文学･芸術に触れ，それを通して美的なものから霊的なものへと探求を進める日々の営みを生涯記しつづけた《日記》全9巻(1946‐61)が，彼の最高の批評作品だともいえる。

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